VENKATESAN NADIMUTHU
SharePoint Specialist
PROFILE:
. 7 years of total IT experience
. 3+ years of SharePoint experience
. 2+ years of Lotus Notes experience
. 2 years of Project Management experience
SUMMARY
. Around 7 years of IT experience and exposure to all phases of software
development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Design, and Development &
Implementation using SharePoint 2010.
. Experience in developing InfoPath Forms, Custom Web Parts, Event
Handlers, Document Libraries, Lists, List definition, Site definition,
Picture Libraries, Announcements, Wiki's, Blogs, Team Sites, RSS Feeds,
Discussion board.
. Extensive knowledge of SharePoint administration, development,
troubleshooting, governance, content deployment across servers.
. Expertise in Windows and Claims based authentication, Hosting Environment
- Office 365 and On-Premise environment; Version - SharePoint 2007 and
SharePoint 2010 Administration - Application Administration and Farm
level administration; Development - Custom webparts, Features,
enhancements, code debugging. Scripting - Client Side Scripting.
. Experience in exception handling, debugging, and testing in SharePoint
applications.
. Used and worked on Third Party tools like Bamboo Web Parts, Co-Sign and
Nintex Workflows
. Hands on experience using C#, ASP, ADO, JavaScript & IIS. Knowledge of
object oriented programming principles, HTML5 & CSS.
. Worked on SQL Server and have developed stored procedures.
. Proven experience in maintaining 100% SLA and driven CSI in the support
engagement.
. Expertise in ITIL Process, experience with business analysis and
requirements in Agile Methodologies.
. Proven Experience on interacting with customers, SME's, vendors and end
users.
. Proficiency in technical documentation of the applications developed,
modification and enhancement to the existing documentation.
. Excellent problem-solving skills. Have good experience in Offshore-
Onshore Model.
. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a very good team
player with the ability to work independently as well.
Education & Certifications:
. Bachelor of Technology from Anna University, India
. MCITP - Sharepoint 2010 Certified
. ITIL Foundation Certified -Incident, Problem, Change and Service
Management
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Software Skills Microsoft Office SharePoint: SharePoint 2010,
MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, InfoPath 2007/2010, SP
Designer 2007/2010
Programming Languages .NET, VB/VB.NET, C/C++/C#.NET, ASP/ASP.NET, XML,
XSLT, HTML, CSS, VBScript, Web Services, AJAX
Operating Systems Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows
2008 R2
Development Tools Visual Studio.NET 2005/2008/2010, SP Designer
2007/2010, MS Active Directory,
Programming Framework OOPS, Design Patterns
Applications Microsoft Office
Database MySQL, Microsoft Access, XML/XSLT, MS SQL Server
2005/2008
Web Technologies DHTML, HTML, XHTML, CSS
Web and Application IIS 7.0/7.5
Servers
Scripting Languages Batch Script, VB Script, JavaScript, PowerShell,
JQuery
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Durham, NC Aug
2013 - Current
SharePoint Service Manager
Project Description: Sharepoint applications are being used for Clinical
Development. These applications are being used by Medical Professionals,
Study Manager, Investigators, and Monitors etc. One of the application acts
as a One stop portal for all study users. Application is also used for the
exchange of documentation between Studies/Countries/ Centers and sign the
FDA documentation electronically and stored in the respective
Study/Country/Center sites.
Responsibilities:
. Managing 7 SharePoint 2010 applications hosted in 'On Premise' Sharepoint
environment developed for R&D Business unit.
. Managing a team of 8 members. Incident, Problem, Service Requests,
Operations and Change Management are in current Scope.
. Responsible for WSR, MSR, Metrics tracking, Risk & Issues tracking,
Escalation Handling, Client Communication, Knowledge Management, Project
Management, Solution Delivery etc.
. Works on critical issue and the tickets that are not handled by the team
members.
. Chair the CAB meetings to effectively manages and changes and ensure that
they are rolled into Production
. Responsible for Pareto Analysis, Trend Analysis, Pivot Charting, RCA,
Production Server issues resolution, Issue Debugging using Visual Studio
2010.
. Contribute towards new RFPs, creation of Slide deck for the new
Sharepoint Support transition services
. Responsible for Pareto Analysis, Trend Analysis, Pivot Charting,
Production Server issues resolution, Issue Debugging using Visual Studio
2010.
Environment: Sharepoint 2010, C#, SQL Server 2008, Infopath 2010, TFS,
Nintex Workflows, Co-Sign
Wipro, India
Jul 2012 - Aug 2013
Sharepoint Service Lead
Responsibilities:
. Worked as a Lead for 2 Sharepoint applications designed to help study
team with information from different sources that enhance the study team
to carry out the Clinical Study activities. Also, Sharepoint application
being used to exchange study documents between Study, Country and Center,
which helps to carry out the study related activities in an efficient
manner.
. Hands on experience working with claims based authentication for the
Sharepoint applications. This is configured for both internal and
external users.
. Responsible for RCA, Investigation, Debugging, Code fix, solutions
deployment
. Responsible for creating Farm environment from the scratch for the
development purpose. Worked with SelfSTS for the claims in the
Development environment.
. Managed the SQL Server databases for the Sharepoint applications
. Worked on the windows services, WCF services. Timer jobs, Event
receivers.
. Worked as a L2/L3 Support Analyst for the applications under Support
Scope.
. Responsible for SQL DB Backup and restore.
Environment: Sharepoint 2010, C#, SQL Server 2008, Infopath 2010, TFS,
Nintex Workflows, Co-Sign
Wipro, Bangalore, India
Jun 2011 - Jun 2012
Sharepoint Lead
Project Overview: Sharepoint Portal application is the Homepage for
internal GSK users. Community Sites have been created for the respective
business units and team sites have been created for the respective teams.
MySites have been created to store the profile information. Application was
hosted in O365 and Migration from Sharepoint 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 been a
casestudy for Microsoft as about 55000 Mysites been migrated to Sharepoint
2010.
Responsibilities:
. Worked as Incident Management Lead and have provided 3rd Line support for
the Sharepoint application used by 100,000+ users in GSK hosted in the
cloud - Microsoft Office 365. We handled about 1 Portal, 400 Community
Sites, 14000 Team sites and about 55000 MySites.
. Coordinate with Microsoft (L4 Support) and handles the issue end-to-end
towards issue resolution.
. Worked with Microsoft TAM and Premier field engineer for the issues
escalated from the MS L1 helpdesk.
. Worked as Site Collection Administrator for all the Community and team
sites hosted in O365 and helps the users with the OOB features and
minimal coding if required.
. Created a KB articles as part of Continuous Service Improvements.
Automation:
. Have automated the Migration of data from the file share to the
Sharepoint Document libraries using batch script.
. Developed a Excel based Macro to pull out the pages from the Pages
Library of a particular view and show it up in the Excel spread sheet.
Macro was created based on the requirement received from client end for
Audit purpose.
. Developed an Excel based Macro to fetch user details based on
domain/userid. User details like FName, LName, Business Phone Number,
mail id etc been fetched. Have used the sedservice and SOAP protocol to
fetch the details in the excel spread sheet using Macro.
. Used Batch Script in order to copy the data from a SharePoint library to
the local drive - Data Backup requirement
. Automated a deletion of about 8000+ MySites. Have developed a VB script
for the same. Script was designed in such a way that it runs on UI and
deletes the MySites which eliminates the risk of deployment of script at
the Server level which was considered to be an Overhead during the time
of migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Deletion of 8000+
MySites helped the client to go for smooth migration.
Environment: Sharepoint 2007 & 2010, MOSS 2007, C#, SQL Server 2008,
Infopath 2007 & 2010, TFS, Nintex Workflows, Bamboo Solutions, Kwizcom
solutions, VB Script
GLAXOSMITHKLINE, London, UK Mar
2010 - May 2011
Lead Consultant
Project Overview: Archiving and Decommissioning plays a vital role in any
organization. This project is all about decommission of Software's,
Databases, Hardware's etc including archiving of Structured and Non-
Structured data. Decommissioning of applications will happen in a step-by-
step methodology where Decommissioning plans & reports and Archiving plan &
Reports helps to decommission applications in a strategic manner.
Responsibilities:
. Played both Lead and Technical Consultant role for the Archiving and
Decommissioning project:
. Analysis, Planning, Execution, Reporting and solutions for
decommissioning including data archiving.
. Explored, extensively tested and customized a third party tool to suit
the client's Lotus Notes database archiving requirements during the PoC
stage. Since, PoC was very successful, we won the bid for about 35 Lotus
Notes databases for Archiving and the requirement is to convert lotus
notes documents from 35 databases into PDF/A - a long-term retention
format recommended for archiving.
Automation:
. Automated the basic command line functions i.e. Copy, Move, Rename etc
for huge file count (Say 100,000 files) using batch Script which helped
the Client to reduce the man-effort and eliminating the manual
intervention.
. Automated the notes documents extraction process using a custom lotus
notes script thereby minimizing the manual efforts and also passed on
substantial monetary benefits to the customers.
Environment: Lotus Notes 6.5, Lotus Scripting, Batch scripting, VB
Scripting
Wipro, Bangalore, India Mar
2008 - Feb 2010
Archive Analyst
Responsibilities:
. Responsible for creation of Decommissioning Plans & Reports, Analysis of
Hardwares, and Softwares and Databases for the application.
. Data Archiving (Structured and Non-Structured data).
. Batch Scripting for Data archiving.
. Used batch script to data migration from Server to the local machine
which reduced the man efforts by 80%
Tharam, Chennai, India Jun 2007 - Feb 2008
Software Support Analyst
Responsibilities:
. Responsible for the software support of web application
. Respond to user support calls
. Responsible for the end-to-end support of web application.
. Reports collection